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Monday, August 11, 2025

Multiple media outlets are reporting that Trump is likely to deploy the National Guard into Washington D.C. For several days Trump has been complaining about crime and the homeless in D.C. Trump warned the homeless to move out.

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NEWS: Donald Trump is on the verge of a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. and is telling all homeless residents to leave immediately.

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-- Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas.bsky.social) Aug 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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Is the NG going to apprehend the child rapist with 34 felony convictions?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-11 08:20 AM | Reply

A nation's capital SHOULD be a ruthless example of the efficiency and cleanliness of raw authoritarian power.

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-11 08:23 AM | Reply

Yep--Christians should round up the homeless, declare them criminals and force them from the city walls.

"Then he will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

"They also will answer, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

"He will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

--Matthew 25:41-46

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-11 08:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

DC crime is currently at a 30 year low. Just another distraction from the Epstein fiasco at the expense of an entire city.

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-11 08:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If it walks like a dictator, if it talks like a dictator, it's probably a dictator.

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-11 08:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump is a fascist POS.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 08:41 AM | Reply

Trump is a fascist POS.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite

Donald Trump sincerely believes that he is some sort of god.

It's easier to seem godlike when you pick on the weak.

So his first miracle is telling the homeless to leave.

And if they don't I suppose he'll find something bad to do with them, anotehr miracle.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 08:49 AM | Reply

If it walks like a dictator, if it talks like a dictator, it's probably a dictator.

#5 | Posted by danni

Donald Trump behaves like any degenerate Roman emperor did. He embraces a life of vice and horror towards others.

His delusions of godhood only get worse. So his behavior will get worse.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 08:52 AM | Reply

One of many Reichstag Fires to come!

So. Much. Winning.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 08:55 AM | Reply

massive federal takeover?

I'll keep a close watch on this......

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 08:56 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I'll keep a close watch on this......
#10 | Posted by eberly

Please pass the Funyuns.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 08:58 AM | Reply

Who will be the first American citizen who is shot dead by the military for being homeless?

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 08:59 AM | Reply

I'll just leave this here ... www.bbc.com

#13 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-08-11 09:13 AM | Reply

You are pathetic. That was a very short period of hours and the situation was remedied immediately. Unlike your orang blob of hate that never apologizes or recognizes or takes any blame, Biden was human.

You are so like your orange hero in that regard.

#14 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Crime is way, way, way down and this action is ridiculous and horrific in the way it's been cast. Trump is a huge pile of hate-filled shit.

#15 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

YAV are you saying Democrats have to engage in fascist behavior to StOp ThE FaScIsTs?

#16 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-08-11 09:27 AM | Reply

Also you're correct, Biden is a human. A cognizant human? Not so much ... If you recall, the Democrats had to engage in a fascist coup and install a candidate due to the lack of cognizant capacity ...

#17 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-08-11 09:29 AM | Reply

You are confused on what Fascism is - which your party is counting on. Resorting to slamming Biden when you voted for what you did is hypocrisy at its finest.

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:32 AM | Reply

if you recall, the Democrats had to engage in a fascist coup

LOL you're delusional.

Now do January 6th.

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:32 AM | Reply

I'll just leave this here ... www.bbc.com

Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-08-11 09:13 AM | Reply

That's not the flex you think it is.

#20 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-11 09:33 AM | Reply

Well, the groundwork was laid using immigrants as the scapegoat.

The escalation is beginning using the homeless and "criminals" as scapegoats.

Citizens will have zero effective rights by year's end at this pace.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 09:34 AM | Reply

There is no need for what tRump is doing except to instill fear, rally hate, demonize the "other" and to consolidate more power. That is Fascism.

#22 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:34 AM | Reply

#21 - you called it.

#23 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:34 AM | Reply

Gotta admit I wish he had thought about bringing in tBringing the National GuaNational Guard now to do the job that the rd in to hahNational Guard now when his own cult is not threatening to invade the Capital again just makes him look like the clueless senile old man he is!

#24 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-11 09:36 AM | Reply

The important thing to remember is that Sh*tler raped children with his buddy Epstein.

#25 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-11 09:39 AM | Reply

Shouldn't trump wait for the all powerful Nancy Pelosi to call in the national guard?

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:42 AM | Reply

#25 - Yep. That's not going away and we can't let it. He and those that participated, regardless of who they are, need to be punished and shamed.

Trump is seizing all levers of power he can. He's going to do all he can to make this go away. He's building a secure enclave around him and the White House.

Just watch.

#27 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:43 AM | Reply

Trump will find a way to weasel out of any accountability for his crimes with Epstein.

He will eventually release a truncated version of the Epstein files that "exonerates" him.

His cult will believe it, (because they want to) then they will use the fraudulent report to prosecute democrats and RINOs only.

#28 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:45 AM | Reply

I'll just leave this here ... www.bbc.com

#13 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Soooo...highlighting the deployment of the national guard after anti-American s*&^bags rioted for Trump on January 6 is...what? Some sort of justification for Trump now deploying them to police an American city without a need to do so?

You're a f*&^ing idiot. A viciously stupid, disingenuous pile of idiotic s*&^.

#29 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 09:46 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I fully expect that Trump will post that Obama is in the Epstein files. You know, the hoax ones he and Biden wrote.

Reality is whatever dear leader says it is, like 1984.

#30 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1


Crime is way, way, way down and this action is ridiculous and horrific in the way it's been cast. Trump is a huge pile of hate-filled shit.
#15 | POSTED BY LYINYAV

DC government is faking crime data, systematically under-reporting violence
thehill.com

Not to worry under reporting is happening all across the country.

Shoplifting numbers for all of San Francisco doubled in September after one Target location changed the method it uses to report the crime
www.businessinsider.com

Oakland PD's inaccurate crime reporting leads to questions about what's going on in city
abc7news.com

That's really what authoritarians look like, under reporting crime, threatening those that do. Its wild to me because the whole argument for a sanctuary city was to enable undocumented immigrants to report crimes. Now Blue Cities threaten you if you report a crime.

#31 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-11 09:49 AM | Reply

Trump is seizing all levers of power he can.

Thank Joe Biden for enabling this really working out isn't ! All the shit you wanted just enabled Trump to do this.

Morons.

#32 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-11 09:51 AM | Reply

Reality is whatever dear leader says it is, like 1984.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:47 AM | Reply

He's just taking after Kim Jung Un is all.

#33 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-11 09:52 AM | Reply

Biden enabled trump by putting that worthless AG Merrick in office.

#34 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oneironut here to run interference for Trump like a good 'open borders liberal'.

FO fraud.

#35 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:53 AM | Reply

Biden enabled trump by putting that worthless AG Merrick in office.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-11 09:52 AM | Reply

True that

#36 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-11 09:54 AM | Reply

I think y'all are mistaken in thinking this is driven by a desire to distract from the Epstein fiasco.

I think this would have went off this way regardless of the Epstein file sideshow.

DC has to be federalized, hardened and turned into a fortress to protect Trump and his minions when they begin abusing the rank-and-file Americans. Because they know his base will take it on the chin the hardest.

I predict in short order they'll start installing security fencing and traffic barriers to begin closing off access to monuments, The Smithsonian ect while controlling/restricting traffic flow.

LA was initiate and normalize. DC is expand and normalize stripping of citizen's rights. I think y'all can guess what phase III will be.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 09:54 AM | Reply

#31 | Posted by oneironaut

F(*& off, s*&^bag.

Thank Joe Biden for enabling this really working out isn't ! All the shit you wanted just enabled Trump to do this.
Morons.

#32 | Posted by oneironaut

Duhhhhh JoE bIdEnZ!!!

Again, f*&^ off, s&^%bag.

#38 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 09:56 AM | Reply

Shouldn't trump wait for the all powerful Nancy Pelosi to call in the national guard?

That was a pithy and quite well done rejoinder.

DC government is faking crime data, systematically under-reporting violence
Do you read and understand your own posts and links? Seriously? Let me help:

BY MICHAEL MURPHY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 06/25/25 1:30 PM ET Who is going to run for office and has to redefine "violent crime" as the "threat of violent crime."

The DOJ reports the same stats using the same classification and the rates have continued to drop even with Trump in office.

You are pathetic calling me a liar for stating what is widely reported and accepted as valid.

#39 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 09:59 AM | Reply

What a surprise that Republicans have no opinion either way on this turn of events...

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 09:59 AM | Reply

Thanks magat scum

#41 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-11 10:00 AM | Reply

I expect all first amendment auditors to converge on DC. Stand up to authoritarianism, film it and remind America of the rights that we are guaranteed.

#42 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-08-11 10:11 AM | Reply

Oh, and couple this with the directive to the military to begin acting against cartels? It's a pincer movement to illegally insert active duty military into domestic law enforcement.

#43 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 10:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump wants people not to think about the Epstein files.

He's already reached the point that every new stunt he pulls makes people think about them twice as much.

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 10:43 AM | Reply

Overall violent crime:
US: down 4.5%
DC: down26%

Homicide:
US: down 14.9%
DC: down 12%

Robbery:
US: down 8.9%
DC: down 28%

Source: FBI and MPDC.

#45 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 10:44 AM | Reply

Will he supplement the National Guard with active duty Marines who will all hang around for a month or two with nothing to do like they did in LA? With hi s current cuts to Medicaid and Food assistance as food prices rise and become unaffordable for many; perhaps he is preparing for food riots? Or just very large protests by the millions of people who have bwcome ubemployed since his term began!

#46 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-11 10:49 AM | Reply

Trump.. He needs to go join Epstein.

That's where He belongs. With his Bestest Buddy.. Jeffery.

#47 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-11 10:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I think a lot of people agree with that these days.

#48 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 11:15 AM | Reply

-I predict in short order they'll start installing security fencing and traffic barriers to begin closing off access to monuments, The Smithsonian ect while controlling/restricting traffic flow.

really? Why?

I've visited these sites several times in the past few years. What does Trump get out of closing off access to these places?

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:19 AM | Reply

What does Trump get out of closing off access to these places?

#49 | POSTED BY EBERLY

You could seriously consider that the man is crazy.

What are the crazy reasons for what Donald does?

Megalomania, anyone? Profound and malignant narcissism?

#50 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 11:22 AM | Reply

I've visited these sites several times in the past few years. What does Trump get out of closing off access to these places?

#49 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Control.

It's about fortifying DC against unrest. You start by removing access to things that draw people then move outward as crowd size dwindles.

#51 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 11:27 AM | Reply

What does Trump get out of closing off access to these places?
#49 | POSTED BY EBERLY

He gets Martial Law.
1. Manufacture a crisis.
2. Never Let A Crisis Go Waste.

#52 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 11:30 AM | Reply

I predict this thread will remain awfully devoid of any significant posting from our resident righties.

"I'll have to see how it turns out" will be the mildest reply from ballwasher. The other scum will cheer because they'll enjoy seeing homeless people manhandled.

#53 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 11:30 AM | Reply

I don't agree with what Trump is doing but I don't think he's going to close off access to monuments. I would think he wants the typical MAGA tourist to be unencumbered when visiting all the sites and enjoy themselves while watching homeless take a beating from troops.

#54 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:31 AM | Reply

-It's about fortifying DC against unrest.

Trump believes some "unrest" is coming and he's going to head it off by restricing access?

okay. Perhaps some unrest is indeed coming their way....I don't know.

#55 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:34 AM | Reply

I think Eberly's right, though. I don't see D.C. being closed off. I see tRump militarizing it, crushing dissent, protests, banning and criminalizing graffiti, and more. He'd then point to D.C. as an example of what other states should do, or they should let the Federal Government do it (Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, etc.). Keep in mind about 40% of Americans are favorable towards fascism or authoritarianism.

#56 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 11:38 AM | Reply

We are so fccking screwed.
We have to find a way to fight this now or our hopes and dreams of America are over.

#57 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 11:41 AM | Reply

"We are so fccking screwed."

Republicans still think they're winning.

#58 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 11:46 AM | Reply

I don't know.
#55 | Posted by eberly

Correct.
Nor are you interested in learning.
You're winning right now, why question it?

#59 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 11:47 AM | Reply

-Keep in mind about 40% of Americans are favorable towards fascism or authoritarianism.

They certainly aren't going to travel to DC to complain about military presence. They would do that in their own backyards but not while they are visiting the Nation's Capitol.


#60 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:53 AM | Reply

Donald Trump keeps inching towards the military occupation of American cities.

I can't imagine why any power-mad dictator would want to do that.

#61 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-11 11:54 AM | Reply

-0You're winning right now, why question it?

I'm always winning.

The questioning is just fun.

#62 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:55 AM | Reply

If there is a city where people would get off watching a NG soldier putting a beat down on a homeless person......it's Washington DC. It's not like Trump is going to have these guys in Georgetown or Bethesda.

It's going to be where everyone present is visiting.

Who's going to question the presence of troops near our most treasured monuments and sites?

#63 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:59 AM | Reply

I don't see D.C. being closed off. I see tRump militarizing it, crushing dissent, protests, banning and criminalizing graffiti, and more. He'd then point to D.C. as an example of what other states should do, or they should let the Federal Government do it (Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, etc.). Keep in mind about 40% of Americans are favorable towards fascism or authoritarianism.

#56 | Posted by YAV

I don't think DC will be closed off either. Just heavily controlled with movement through set up (ie predictable) avenues.

They want to know who's there and, if possible, where they're going and what they're doing.

#64 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 11:59 AM | Reply

"Donald Trump keeps inching towards the military occupation of American cities."

^
Blue Cities.
Because Democrats are the real enemy.
Because everything that Trump does in the next four years is to clean up Joe Biden's mess.

Just ask a Republican if you don't believe me.

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 12:01 PM | Reply

Who's going to question the presence of troops near our most treasured monuments and sites?
#63 | Posted by eberly

Certainly not any Republicans.
Republicans are not quite up to speed yet, but soon they will be asking why DC ever got home rule in the first place.
DC being able to run itself is Woke, and was a DEI decision, from the Civil Rights Era.
Look it up.

#66 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-11 12:02 PM | Reply

-I predict in short order they'll start installing security fencing and traffic barriers to begin closing off access to monuments, The Smithsonian ect while controlling/restricting traffic flow.

really? Why?

I've visited these sites several times in the past few years. What does Trump get out of closing off access to these places?

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 11:19 AM | Reply | Flag:

It's all in the moron's language... "I predict" No proof, no nothing, just gotcha bullshit.

#67 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-11 12:04 PM | Reply

I remember a bitterly cold day in February, in the 1980's, when I was walking past a park with homeless people sleeping under newspapers or whatever they had.

Reagan's motorcade drove past and I wondered, "doesn't this MF look out the window? If he does, he doesn't care at all? The man behind closing mental hospitals and putting patients on the street?!"

All this while the GOP was being co-opted by the religious right ... "Moral Majority," Falwell, etc who're supposed to care about "the least of these" according to the namesake of Christianity. F-ing hypocrites.

#68 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-08-11 12:05 PM | Reply

Who cares? Whites sending alliance signals to other murdering racist is a corner stone of usa politics.

#69 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-11 12:06 PM | Reply

"I don't think DC will be closed off either"

so when you said "closing off access to monuments" I was supposed to ignore that?

#70 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-11 12:06 PM | Reply

Blue Cities.

Redundant.

Cities in blue states will be the first targets, for sure.

But cities in red states will be targets as well. If they are targeted quicker than blue state cities, it will be because of compliant governors who go along with activating state NG to deploy to urban areas at Trump's demand.

#71 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 12:06 PM | Reply

Fnck Trump and fnck his supporters.

#72 | Posted by cbob at 2025-08-11 12:07 PM | Reply

Big Balls getting punched in the streets was the perfect false flag operation Trump needed to start militarizing America.

Jussie Sommelier has nothing on these guys.

#73 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-11 12:07 PM | Reply

I predict in short order they'll start installing security fencing and traffic barriers to begin closing off access to monuments, The Smithsonian ect while controlling/restricting traffic flow.

LA was initiate and normalize. DC is expand and normalize stripping of citizen's rights. I think y'all can guess what phase III will be.

#37 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 09:54 AM | Reply | Flag:

Apparently this raetard has never lived in a location where the NG took over because local LEOs couldn't/wouldn't do their jobs.

dUh i pReDiCt cUz tRuMp

#74 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-11 12:08 PM | Reply

Pushing them out to the suburbs of the DC metro is what he's doing... most likely PG county... and not to Bethesda or anywhere else VA... or Northern MD.... except maybe Bmo

Homeless whacka mole... gonna be interesting to see how this plays out.

#75 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-11 12:09 PM | Reply

All this an a 10 million $ statue to the Confederacy in Arlington National Cemetery.

Yay 'Merica!

#76 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-11 12:11 PM | Reply

so when you said "closing off access to monuments" I was supposed to ignore that?

#70 | Posted by eberly

Restricting access to specific sites isn't closing off the entire city.

Where have some of the most poignant protests taken place in our nation's history? The National Mall. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Washington Monument.

They're not going to let that happen.

#77 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-11 12:11 PM | Reply

How is Orange Adolph supposed to cheat at golf when he has to see poor downtrodden citizens on the way to the golf course?

Deporting them to Angola is compassionate on his part considering what his favorite bedside book author did!

#78 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-11 12:13 PM | Reply

Apparently this raetard has never lived in a location where the NG took over because local LEOs couldn't/wouldn't do their jobs.

Like Uvalde, Texas, or Kent State, Ohio?

#79 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-11 12:14 PM | Reply

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